Why are we so against cope?

[StopRottingNOW]

Today I was having a conversation about life, death, and the concept of hope with a friend of mine.

We both were discussing our lives, and how in many ways we were unhappy with life and how it was going. He told me how sure it's bad, but he believes that he's a on a path to where he has belief that if he keeps doing what he's doing his future will be far better.

I say to him, "Hope is such cope though. We have no reason to believe our mindsets, lives, etc will be significantly better in the future than they are now. For the vast majority, past behavior predicts future behaviors."

He tells me. "Well maybe you should try coping. You'd probably be a lot happier"

The reality in my eyes, is that most things are cope. The idea that getting older isn't inherently bad is a cope. The idea that ugly people can live fulfilling lives is a cope. Using passions and shit to distract oneself is a cope.

But what's the point of identifying copes and rejecting them? What does not coping get us. Some things we can't face without cope. Death, for example, is something that you NEED to cope about in some to not feel depressed.

We were born into a world that doesn't give a shit about us. We are at the complete mercy of our environment and at the mercy of nature. Neither things give a damn about us, and in reality our existence is many times rendered meaningless at best, or torturous at worst. Copes help to alleviate this sorrow, and are necessary to do so. So why exactly do we reject cope?

 

[Deleted member 21297]

just play vidya games man

 

[sub5inchcel]

just play vidya games man

ehich game

 

[kalefartbomb]

I don't know how cope became such a derogatory concept. You either cope or you rope, therefore we are all coping. Looksmaxing is a cope. Having copes isn't a bad thing it's a good way to go through life because for almost all of us life will involve a lot of suffering. Where did we get this idea that life should be nothing but hedonistic ease? Perhaps zoomers living in a instagram fantasy. It's more a question of finding copes that make your life better, because clearly gambling and gymcelling have different life outcomes even though they are both copes.

 

[Deleted member 15827]

Based

 

[Gandy]

I don't know how cope became such a derogatory concept. You either cope or you rope, therefore we are all coping. Looksmaxing is a cope. Having copes isn't a bad thing it's a good way to go through life because for almost all of us life will involve a lot of suffering. Where did we get this idea that life should be nothing but hedonistic ease? Perhaps zoomers living in a instagram fantasy. It's more a question of finding copes that make your life better, because clearly gambling and gymcelling have different life outcomes even though they are both copes.

Looksmaxing is a cope as well. An attempt to raise your daily dopamine levels through admiration and validation. Which in turn allows the person to deal better with the constant drudgery, misery and suffering we call life on Earth.

It's surely one of the best copes though. What better way to fool your brains into feeling happiness than a constant stream of female validation (if you are a straight male)? Most men only get to dream about it.

But it's achievable if your base is at least mediocre, and you have disposable income + willpower to do soft and hard maxing.

The ROI on improving your looks is incredibly high compared to copes like luxury cars, yachts or clothes, as far as getting female sexual attraction goes.

 

[EmperorFuvis]

I don't know how cope became such a derogatory concept. You either cope or you rope, therefore we are all coping. Looksmaxing is a cope. Having copes isn't a bad thing it's a good way to go through life because for almost all of us life will involve a lot of suffering. Where did we get this idea that life should be nothing but hedonistic ease? Perhaps zoomers living in a instagram fantasy. It's more a question of finding copes that make your life better, because clearly gambling and gymcelling have different life outcomes even though they are both copes.

Ngl...High IQ take. I for one, have allowed myself to maintain a mental-state of "cope-deficit", instead of "absolutely zero cope 24/7". Microdosing cope restored my feelings of hope for the future, and has given me much more happiness, natural motivation and discipline.

1.) Reframing situations from a third-person viewpoint, 2.) actively viewing life from a perspective of someone who might have it even worse than you, & 3.) practicing gratitude are all powerful psychological tools.

These 3 tools are not cope when you really think about it...if anything, it will make you more low-inhib, anybody who's not an absolute retard will understand this concept. There are so many dope things in your life that you might take for granted, without realizing you could literally just wake up some day and no longer have them.

For example -

1.) Being a Sub5 or a LTN, but only having 1-2 physically redeeming qualities....there are plenty people who don't even have that much.

2.) Videogames, sex-dolls, drugs, hookers, food delivery, internet, medical insurance, your car, a slave-job that at least pays your rent.....there are people who can't even financially afford that much.

3.) Family & Friends who might not love you, but they at least care for you in some capacity, and find you interesting or entertaining during conversations....there are people who aren't even blessed with that.

4.) Being a Sub5 or a LTN, but being mad funny thanks to your coping-mechanisms, or potentially even having chad-lite brain-chemistry & being low-inhib as fuck due to understanding you are a beta-chud, with zero-value in society, & nothing left to lose...

Its mad fuckin' easy to have massive courage and just due whatever the fuck you want with your life after being bullied for years, rejected by every woman you ever liked, and becoming the disappointment of your family after being held-back in school by depression, escapism, and low-self esteem...

You've got zero aura, failure is your baseline, so there's no need to feel fear towards a concept that is your very existence. You are essentially free from everyone & everything in this world except financial debt.

There are plenty of HTN-MTN who are extremely high-inhib and psychologically-enslaved to literally everything and everyone. That's what happens someone spends 2-3 decades with a societal-value of 2, or 3, instead of Zero...they are desperate to hold on to the little bit of aura they have and will spend their who lives trapped in maintaining their aura and yearning for the opinions of others.

If almost everyone's opinion of you is already negative, you are essentially a free man. Emotionally indebted to nobody, doesn't chase the respect of anybody, unshackled by the weakness of needing to feel empathy for the people around you...

The only thing that actually matters when walking through life as a Zero-Value Sub5, is whatever the fuck you want to matter...your own desires and self-interests...nothing else. This is a concept that most normies will never be able to comprehend.


Conclusion -

Its ok to modify your thought-process and cope just a little bit. It'll be wayyy more difficult to ascend in any capacity if you're just being nihilistic 24/7...your general outlook plays a huge role on your discipline.

Also, if you do ascend physically, you don't ascend mentally and begin thinking like a chad...nothing will change in your life...Androgenic speaks of this....

The only exception to that rule is if you statusmaxx your way into chad-territory, which is borderline impossible...Clavicular speaks of this.

The Blackpill is the only realistic pill philosophy, that much is true, but there are plenty of concepts from other pills that also have high-degrees of validity & could be used to benefit your own life in some capacity. Any high-IQ grey would know this instinctually.

And lastly, it is not fucking cope, IN THE SLIGHTEST, when I say that your situation could be wayyy, wayyy fucking worse....just look around on this forum...be appreciative of the little-bit you do have...practicing gratitude ain't the same as ripping lines of copium.